http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t8752#synopsis pretty good take on human effects of inadequate legal rep caused by idiotic LSC funding/payments regime, plus extent of shoddy advisers. shame it takes something like a suicide to provoke this kind of programming.

We were at legal aid awards thing t'other week, and one person who won an award was this woman who used to work at RMJ and basically carried boxes and boxes of files over to a local law centre when it closed, and has continued on those cases at the law centre. I know it's no substitute for the services that are being gutted, but it's still a sterling effort.

I don't know much abotu this particular (IAS) situation apart from what's in the link, but hell, the LSC cuts are devastating to so many.

Are any newspapers proeprly covering this (not rhetorical, genuine question)?

We were at legal aid awards thing t'other week, and one person who won an award was this woman who used to work at RMJ and basically carried boxes and boxes of files over to a local law centre when it closed, and has continued on those cases at the law centre. I know it's no substitute for the services that are being gutted, but it's still a sterling effort.

One of the winners was Baljeet Sandhu, formerly an immigration lawyer with the Refugee and Migrant Justice, which went into administration last year because of cash flow problems. She now works at Islington Law Centre, after pitching up there with 70 boxes of files she had "rescued" from RMJ (standing on the pavement with them while bemused law centre staff helped bring them into the office).http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/j...gal-aid-awards

Originally Posted by baboon2004

I don't know much abotu this particular (IAS) situation apart from what's in the link, but hell, the LSC cuts are devastating to so many.

Are any newspapers proeprly covering this (not rhetorical, genuine question)?

whilst LSC and Legal Aid cuts are ultimately responsible, I'm not sure IAS couldn't have managed the closure a bit better. I'm open to being enlightened by someone who knows more about administration than I do, but I know IAS staff would have worked for free to cover a wind-down period, and have heard from mates working in the wider sector that they were in denial about the likely outcome of the whole situation right up until the end (hence the sudden closure). Any thoughts? Or is that just the way these things work?